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Jörðgarð Map of Week #114 - City of Mine Docks

The 114th Map of the Week is arriving a bit late. On the weekend the LTE UHF trasmitter and receiver that gives us Internet access died a quiet and peaceful death. The replace ment arrived today, so here we go, at last, almost.

First of all, just a note to say that the next map of the week will arrive even later. July's about to start, and that's when the three of us in the Vintyri (TM) project start doing vacation things. That means we won't be back with Map of the Week No. 115 until August.

Thís week, with Map of the Week No. 114, we take a look at the Slovanian city of Mine Docks. It's the biggest settlement in the Map of the Week collection to date, and also one of two locations in the Northwest of the Jörðgarð campaign setting taht was designed as a highly detailed staging area for adventuring PCs. (The other was Óðinn's House).

Because there are so many detailed sites on this map, we can offer only the briefest description of each here. However, if you want the full detailed information on the 64 numbered locations, you can download it as a free PDF here:

2. As a JPG flat map of 3000 Pixels x 2250 Pixels (3.5 MB) above:
Both versions are released for personal and commercial use under the Open Game License Version 1.0a, which you can read on the Jörðgarð website at: